E-Cig Makers Say Proposed FDA Regs Should Keep Sales Smoking

The $2 billion electronic cigarette industry blew a big vapor ring of relief Thursday as the FDA released long-awaited proposed regulations for the booming tobacco alternative. Makers of e-cigarettes, an almost entirely unregulated product that some have touted as a healthier alternative to lighting up a pack of Parliaments, for the most part agreed that the proposed rules were much less onerous to existing companies than they could have been.